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SUMMARY:Damion Searls
DESCRIPTION:The Inkblot: Hermann Rorschach\, His Iconic Test\, and the Power of Seeing \nfrom Crown Books \nThe captivating untold story of Hermann Rorschach and his famous inkblot test\, which has shaped our view of human personality and become a fixture in popular culture \nIn 1917\, working alone in a remote Swiss asylum\, psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach devised an experiment to probe the human mind. For years he had grappled with the theories of Freud and Jung while also absorbing the aesthetic of a new generation of modern artists. He had come to believe that who we are is less a matter of what we say\, as Freud thought\, than what we see. \nRorschach himself was a visual artist\, and his test\, a set of ten carefully designed inkblots\, quickly made its way to America\, where it took on a life of its own. Co-opted by the military after Pearl Harbor\, it was a fixture at the Nuremberg trials and in the jungles of Vietnam. It became an advertising staple\, a cliché in Hollywood and journalism\, and an inspiration to everyone from Andy Warhol to Jay Z. The test was also given to millions of defendants\, job applicants\, parents in custody battles\, workers applying for jobs\, and people suffering from mental illness—or simply trying to understand themselves better. And it is still used today. \nDamion Searls draws on unpublished letters and diaries as well as a cache of previously unknown interviews with Rorschach’s family\, friends\, and colleagues to tell the unlikely story of the test’s creation\, its controversial reinvention\, and its remarkable endurance—and what it all reveals about the power of perception. Elegant and original\, The Inkblots shines a light on the twentieth century’s most visionary synthesis of art and science. \n\nDamion Searls has written for Harper’s\, n+1\, and The Paris Review\, and has translated the work of authors including Rilke\, Proust\, and five Nobel Prize winners. He has been the recipient of Guggenheim\, NEA\, and Cullman Center fellowships.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/damion-searls/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Christina Baker Kline
DESCRIPTION:From the author of the smash bestseller Orphan Train\, a stunning and atmospheric novel of friendship\, passion\, and art\, inspired by Andrew Wyeth’s mysterious and iconic painting “Christina’s World” \n“Later he told me that he’d been afraid to show me the painting. He thought I wouldn’t like the way he portrayed me: dragging myself across the field\, fingers clutching dirt\, my legs twisted behind. The arid moonscape of wheatgrass and timothy. That dilapidated house in the distance\, looming up like a secret that won’t stay hidden.” \nTo Christina Olson\, the entire world was her family’s remote farm in the small coastal town of Cushing\, Maine. Born in the home her family had lived in for generations\, and increasingly incapacitated by illness\, Christina seemed destined for a small life. Instead\, for more than twenty years\, she was host and inspiration for the artist Andrew Wyeth\, and became the subject of one of the best-known American paintings of the twentieth century. \nAs she did in her beloved smash bestseller Orphan Train\, Christina Baker Kline interweaves fact and fiction in a powerful novel that illuminates a little-known part of America’s history. Bringing into focus the flesh-and-blood woman behind the portrait\, she vividly imagines the life of a woman with a complicated relationship to her family and her past\, and a special bond with one of our greatest modern artists. \nTold in evocative and lucid prose\, A Piece of the World is a story about the burdens and blessings of family history\, and how artist and muse can come together to forge a new and timeless legacy. \nChristina Baker Kline is the author of five novels\, including the #1 New York Times bestseller Orphan Train. Her other novels include Bird in Hand\, The Way Life Should Be\, Desire Lines\, and Sweet Water.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christina-baker-kline/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Wendy Garling
DESCRIPTION:Please join Green Apple Books on Clement street Tuesday\, March 14h at 7:00pm as we welcome Author Wendy Garling\, reading from and discussing her book Stars at Dawn. \n  \nIn this retelling of the ancient legends of the women in the Buddha’s intimate circle\, lesser-known stories from Sanskrit and Pali sources are for the first time woven into an illuminating\, coherent narrative that follows his life from his birth to his parinirvana or death. Interspersed with original insights\, fresh interpretations\, and bold challenges to the status quo\, the stories are both entertaining and thought-provoking—some may even appear controversial. \n  \nFocusing first on laywomen from the time before the Buddha’s enlightenment—his birth mother and stepmother\, his co-wives\, and members of his harem when he was known as Prince Siddhartha—then moving on to the Buddha’s first female disciples\, early nuns\, and to female patrons\, Wendy Garling invites us to open our minds to a new understanding of their roles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wendy-garling/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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